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Letters: Divided nation

Some people love it when they wake up in the morning and Barack Obama is president. Others wake up unemployed, vote for Obama and are still unemployed.

I wake up concerned that the real Barack Obama is about to step forward. He will be accountable to no one.

Obama has yet to show any leadership qualities that he can unite our nation. How can you have economic recovery without unity?

Our country has rules and consequences; Obama picks and chooses who he wants the rules to apply to. Barack Obama pumped millions into Solyndra, yet he can't keep a Twinkie factory opened. That is who we have as president. He somehow was re-elected president by telling people what they wanted to hear, and he delivered on nothing.

Punishing small business and those who perform is not leadership. When your employer closes his or her business, and puts you out of work, call Obama and cry "foul."

America needs to unite itself. That will not happen with a self-serving president, along with an incompetent Congress.

Our nation is deeply divided and that does not bring a smile to my face.

Danny Carter

West El Paso

Scratching heads

Regarding Ramon Renteria's column that Fox News is scratching their heads that a black man was re-elected president. The facts are that Fox News and much of America are scratching their heads that any man could be re-elected to the presidency after failing catastrophically in his first term.

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More than $5 trillion in new debt, more than 20 million Americans out of work, and a health-care law that will ruin the best health-care system in the world.

True, the demographics are changing, but to see 93 percent of blacks voting for a man who has done nothing for them is amazing. The black unemployment rate is nearly double the country's total.

More than 40 percent of teenage blacks are jobless. Most black religious leaders don't support Obama's push for same-sex marriages. And for the 70 percent of Hispanics who likewise voted for Obama?

What has he done in four years for the citizens of Hispanic heritage, the majority of whom are Catholic but voted for a man who is attempting to force Catholic hospitals to provide abortions and contraceptives to their patients.

Yes, Ramon, we are scratching our heads.Ê

Robert LaBelle

West El Paso

Boo hoo

In response to the article in the El Paso Times about the possibility of MountainStar Sports Group losing a significant sum of money if they are not successful in bringing their newly purchased team to El Paso: I say Boo-hoo. You shouldn't have counted your chickens before they hatched!

Karen Mathis

East El Paso

Coach Price

Thank you Coach Price for the time and effort you put into our Miners. Since you became coach of the Miners, my husband and I have been season-ticket holders -- front-row seats, diehard fans.

I am very happy to hear you will retire in El Paso. We are very lucky to have people like you and your beautiful wife be part of El Paso.

You were kind enough to speak to our school a couple of times to motivate the students right before they took the TAKS test, and for that we appreciate you more.

Thank you. Now you can enjoy watching the team with us on the sideline.

Yolanda Nieto

Lower Valley

Stadium protection

Possibly this has been addressed already by the Times, but I may have missed it. Now that the Downtown ballpark is moving forward, can a Times reporter do a little digging and determine what protections are in place for the citizens of El Paso regarding the 25-year lease agreement.

Should the Triple-A team fail, or the people of El Paso fail to support it, are the personal fortunes of the Hunts and the Fosters guaranteeing the lease payments, or is it a corporation with no tangible assets other than the ball club itself?

We all know that Donald Trump has declared bankruptcy a few times, and he left his investors and creditors holding the bag. Are the citizens of El Paso protected against default?

Robert Stone

Northeast El Paso

Support city

"Crazies," please support the vision and the people who see a better future for our out-of-date, brain-drained and delapidated city.

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